Word: succinctly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never cease but that a lot of them are going to be settled by this book. Lieut. Colonel Boatner, onetime instructor of military history at West Point, has arranged 4,000 items in alphabetical order, among them 2,000 brief biographies of notable Civil War figures and scores of succinct action accounts from Gettysburg to mere skirmishes...
...still issue sharp criticisms of U.S. policy: "The Eisenhower Administration, while having a policy towards the world, has consistently lacked policies for particular parts of it. It has had an attitude, but not solutions-a diagnosis, but no remedies." In its attitude toward the cold war, the Economist is succinct: "The essential thing is for the West to stand by its own concept of the world it wants to make. The challenge will then be to the Russians...
These three masters, quite understandably, form the backbone of this handsome show, but their younger colleagues and epigoni contribute a number of exciting works themselves. Perhaps the most well-known of the new buildings, Edward Stone's vibrant New Delhi Embassy, deserves top honors for its succinct and artistic suggestion of the filigree of India's most well-known monument, the Taj Mahal. A surprise in this exhibition is provided by the exciting and imaginative project of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill for the Banque Lambert in Brussels. So ingenious is its form of detail and so striking its balancing...
...been my pleasure to have known the late Frank Lloyd Wright for the last few years. As a result, I feel impelled to offer my congratulations for the sensitive yet succinct sketch you offered to this individual's memory [April 20]. It was indeed an ideal thumbnail sketch of the high points of this native genius' life and times...
...country . . . You will not be pleased with everything you see. Neither are we. But you will see us as we are." Repeating his favorite theme that a "free market economy . . . can outproduce any other kind of economy known to man," Ike left the I.C.C. meeting with a succinct reminder: "The old saying was that 'Trade follows the flag.' But the flag of which I speak is an international banner-that of freedom and peace...